About Christine
Christine Barnes is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, traumatic memories, or life changes. Her style is direct and caring, and she aims to help people face difficult truths so they can make steady progress.
She spent a decade working in the Department of Veterans Affairs, providing therapy for people with post-traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, and substance use concerns.
How Christine works
Before that she provided psychotherapy and crisis intervention in nursing homes and community mental health settings. That range of experience shaped a practical approach to difficult problems. Christine focuses on trauma and believes many current struggles trace back to past adverse experiences.
She uses evidence-based methods to help people reduce symptoms, improve coping, and rebuild daily routines. Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal directed, with practical tools offered between meetings.
Her clinical toolbox includes cognitive behavioral methods to shift unhelpful thoughts, dialectical behavior skills for emotional regulation, mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity, motivational interviewing to support change, and trauma-focused work when past events need to be processed. She adapts techniques to each person's situation. People who prefer honest feedback and clear action steps often find her approach helpful.
She works with adults around concerns such as depression, addiction, grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, sleep problems, and attention challenges. Christine practices in Texas as an LCSW.
Christine lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Christine works with
The areas below are the ones Christine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online work
Christine often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change thinking patterns that contribute to anxiety or depression. CBT provides clear exercises and homework that transfer easily to phone or video sessions. Dialectical behavior therapy focuses on skills for regulating intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness; skills coaching and practice fit well into short video or text check-ins. Trauma-focused therapy is also part of her work, offering structured ways to process and reduce the hold of past events when a person is ready.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. She collaborates with each person to decide which methods match their goals, symptoms, and preferences. That might mean starting with skills and coping strategies and later adding trauma-focused work as trust and stability grow.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or screen time is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use brief coaching during busy days. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health routines while keeping treatment consistent and focused.
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